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Use of Organic Temper for Carbon 14 Dating in Lowland South America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Clifford Evans  and
Betty J. Meggers
Clifford Evans
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D.C.
Betty J. Meggers
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D.C.
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Abstract

Experimental work has demonstrated the practicality of extracting sufficient organic carbon for Carbon 14 dating from sherds tempered with crushed charcoal sponge spicules (cauixi), and siliceous bark (cariapé). The sherds were from ceramic complexes on the Napo, Orinoco, and Amazon Rivers that had been stratigraphically excavated and could be cross-checked.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1962 , pp. 243 - 245
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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